How to add a new line before a capital letter?

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I am writing a piece of code to get lyrics from genius.com.

I have managed to extract the code from the website but it comes out in a format where all the text is on one line.

I have used regex to add a space but cannot figure out how to add a new line. Here is my code so far:

text_container = re.sub(r"(w)([A-Z])", r"1 2", text_container.text)

This adds a space before the capital letter, but I cannot figure out how to add a new line.

It is returning [Verse 1]Leaves are fallin' down on the beautiful ground I heard a story from the man in red He said, "The leaves are fallin' down

I would like to add a new line before "He" in the command line.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks 🙂

Asked By: Fatbob

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Answer 1

If genius.com doesn’t somehow provide a separator, it will be very hard to find a way to know what to look for.

In your example, I made a regex searching for " [A-Z]", which will find " He…". But it will also find all places where a sentence starts with " I…". Sometimes new sentences will start with "I…", but it might make new lines where there actually shouldn’t be one.

TL;DR – genius.com needs to provide some sort of separator so we know when there should be a new line.

Disclaimer: Unless I missed something in your description/example

Answered By: oscillate123

Answer 2

A quick skim of the view-source for a genius lyrics page suggests that you’re stripping all the HTML markup which would otherwise contain the info about linebreaks etc.

You’re probably better off posting that code (likely as a separate question) and asking how to correctly extract not just the text nodes, but also enough of the <span> structure to format it as necessary.

Answered By: Shabble

Answer 3

Looking around I found an API that python has to pull lyrics from Genius.com, here’s the link to the PyPI:

https://lyricsgenius.readthedocs.io/en/master/

Just follow the instructions and it should have what you need, with more info on the problem I could provide a more detailed response

Answered By: Trevor Hurst

Answer 4

I’m not sure about using regex. Try this method:

text = lyrics
new_text = ''

for i, letter in enumerate(text):
    if i and letter.isupper():
        new_text += 'n'

    new_text += letter
    
print(new_text)

However, as oscillate123 has explained, it will create a new line for every capital letter regardless of the context.

Answered By: TheAnister

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